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PSEUDOWINTERA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pseudowintera mean?
• PSEUDOWINTERA (noun)
The noun PSEUDOWINTERA has 1 sense:
1. evergreen shrubs or small trees of Australia and New Zealand
Familiarity information: PSEUDOWINTERA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evergreen shrubs or small trees of Australia and New Zealand
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Pseudowintera; genus Wintera; Pseudowintera; Wintera
Hypernyms ("Pseudowintera" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "Pseudowintera"):
pepper shrub; Pseudowintera colorata; Wintera colorata (evergreen shrub or small tree whose foliage is conspicuously blotched with red and yellow and having small black fruits)
Holonyms ("Pseudowintera" is a member of...):
family Winteraceae; winter's bark family; Winteraceae (small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae)
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